Google’s ongoing court battle with Oracle has revealed some interesting details about the early days of Android. Bryan Bishop of The Verge has been reporting from the courtroom and shared a bunch of new documents which Google released today.

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It is a shame something like this never took off. I think now the carriers would definitely pass on this but wish this would have caught on and data plans probably would have been a little cheaper today.

Actually, the first documentations of the Android SDK (and the first beta SDKs as well) contained more touch-with-buttons layout, including a whole QWERTY model (a very BB-ish feeling, in red), what got a 480*320 landscape display, but in 0.9 it was changed to the more known red touch with d-pad model (optionally a slide-qwerty could be enabled). So the phone part isn’t news at all.

About those data plans, well, it would rock. But it shows Google was again thinking about giving privileges to US people, without love to the other countries.

I keep arguing with my iPhone loving friends that Google wasn’t trying to copy apple but more so competing agianst phones like blackberry, but touch screens took off thanks to apple and thus the hybrid was born= The G1.

Looks like we’ve made a complete 180, from Google stating ” a touchscreen cannot completely replace physical buttons” to having the Galaxy Nexus be all touchscreen and from wanting $9.99 unlimited data plans to having tiered data plans and throttled speeds. We have a bright future for touchscreen technology and augmented reality stuff and perhaps 3D someday but on the downside data plans will never be unlimited anymore and will continue to be tiered though hopefully that will change.

It would be very nice indeed to wake up to news (although improbable) of T-Mobile being bought by Google. Specially now that Google’s Nexus direct sales is back up with support for both US GSM carriers, it would mean no longer waiting until a US compatible version gets made. We then could enjoy devices as they where meant to like Europe usually does.

It is a shame something like this never took off. I think now the carriers would definitely pass on this but wish this would have caught on and data plans probably would have been a little cheaper today.

Actually, the first documentations of the Android SDK (and the first beta SDKs as well) contained more touch-with-buttons layout, including a whole QWERTY model (a very BB-ish feeling, in red), what got a 480*320 landscape display, but in 0.9 it was changed to the more known red touch with d-pad model (optionally a slide-qwerty could be enabled). So the phone part isn’t news at all.

About those data plans, well, it would rock. But it shows Google was again thinking about giving privileges to US people, without love to the other countries.

I keep arguing with my iPhone loving friends that Google wasn’t trying to copy apple but more so competing agianst phones like blackberry, but touch screens took off thanks to apple and thus the hybrid was born= The G1.

Looks like we’ve made a complete 180, from Google stating ” a touchscreen cannot completely replace physical buttons” to having the Galaxy Nexus be all touchscreen and from wanting $9.99 unlimited data plans to having tiered data plans and throttled speeds. We have a bright future for touchscreen technology and augmented reality stuff and perhaps 3D someday but on the downside data plans will never be unlimited anymore and will continue to be tiered though hopefully that will change.

It would be very nice indeed to wake up to news (although improbable) of T-Mobile being bought by Google. Specially now that Google’s Nexus direct sales is back up with support for both US GSM carriers, it would mean no longer waiting until a US compatible version gets made. We then could enjoy devices as they where meant to like Europe usually does.